The Horror, The Horror (rev 1.1)

beep, boop, beep… ring… ring….

“Hi, you’ve reached Mike Beltzner, I probably didn’t get my phone out of my pocket in time, so leave a message and I’ll get back to you. Thanks.”

“Hi, Mike Hoye speaking. Listen, I’m in a UI-design seminar here… we’re taking a break, and… there was a guy in there just now who suggested that UIs should be designed the way the X Consortium people designed X windows… I don’t think he even knows what that means, but… he went on to suggest that the way to organize your bookmarks is to treat each bookmark as a file, and then to use the file-metadata stuff in OS/2 to tag and sort them… Yeah. So, listen: I’m probably going to kill myself here, and I thought you’d appreciate why. Have a good night!”